Or more to the point, Asia is out-competing America and somehow Mr. Dimon has decided to blame this on Europe instead of American competitiveness.

So first of all, this is referencing last year. Nothing failed with Apple intelligence, and that's the point, they play it safely. AI works, and it's as scary as combine harvesting, transistor radios and tape recordings. It's all solid state now though. Apple practices politics as one of the largest companies in the world. The animosity to Tim Cook is nothing compared to Musk or Trump. It's very hard to get the world in agreement on what a better world looks like, especially with all the hurt everyone has been through.

How do we get AI to solve for world peace and a post scarcity society, when so many politicians and young people don't see value in that? Many, many people don't want equality, they want to have more, and violence is an option.

They can find other food. Flies for example, or other bugs. I doubt we'll actually be able to eliminate them all, fruit flies could just evolve back in to mosquitoes. As far as population control, I suggest we start with you and your progeny.

Long distance calling and video chats work great nearly all over the world (depending on network connection). Now verifying the person you're talking to is actually the person you think you're talking to in the age of photorealistic video/voice filters is a whole different matter.

China also has a space station of their own. I'm not sure for how long aircraft carriers are going to be the deterrent they use to be in the age of hyper-sonic missiles and drone warfare. I'd like to believe in the supremacy of the American military, and agree the lunatics shouldn't controlling those weapons. The conflicts between India (US) and Pakistan (US+China) tend to indicate the Chinese weapons are very capable.

I don't think automation is a net negative though, just as the industrial revolution brought significant benefits to very broad swaths of the global population. I hardly think there's much of a need for more people working in warehouses and manufacturing facilities. I'd like to think the automation will push us further towards a post-scarcity society where the average person has significantly more while working significantly less, but working less is very "Un-American".

How long should copyrights and patents last? What happens when a 3rd party country, such as China, Laos, or Colombia, doesn't respect either? What's a fair price to pay for licenses, how should they be taxed, and what happens when there's no way to enforce these things?

So it largely comes down to military might and intelligence gathering then? If one country, say China, has no respect for intellectual property laws in America, there's really not anything stopping them from scraping up everything and ignoring all of the American laws then? So realistically it all just comes to money, connections, and power and with enough of it everything's legal (or illegal without money and power)? I guess that's largely what goes in some countries.

It's about the same as it's consideration for the rights of scientists, engineers, even lawyers and philosophers. Artists and authors deserve to be compensated and live a good life, but to stop AI from scrapping https://arxiv.org/ seems like a pretty silly idea to me too.

It's something of a slippery slope. Media piracy certainly didn't go away with Napster. How long should intellectual property last for? Shouldn't the original Mickey Mouse be in the public domain by now? Certainly most academic articles should be available to the people that can use them for good, ideally for free. What happens when people prefer the AI generated content to the human made stuff? If the computer generated/synthesized stuff sounds just as good as the human made stuff, and I'm just listening to it in the background, why not go with the generated stuff? And there's no shortage of cheap imitations on Amazon already.

What happens when the laws in one country directly contradict the laws in another country?

The Chinese military is pretty competitive, and I wouldn't want to trifle with Russia or Israel either. The technology and manpower are what matter most, both of which it seems China has more of. There's a better world out there than the US of A. Personally, I prefer Europe, but Asia if very nice too. I prefer highly developed countries with high levels of equality (socially and economically). I don't think America is going to collapse any more than I think Russia or China will. If you don't like your country, you should be allowed to move to one you like better. There's always a political crisis, always someone with more and always someone with less. Combat, like prostitution, probably isn't ever going to fully go away, but maybe the AI revolution will reduce the harm and maybe some day world peace can actually be achieved. Peace takes vigilance, Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Still better than being in Gaza or Ukraine at the moment, or being deported, voluntarily or otherwise. Might be time to move on out from the US of A. But then why can't they lay new cable? Presumably the courts, or the unions, or who knows any more. I prefer to blame the system rather than oligarchs or billionaires, just glad I'm not in the states anymore.

I agree, and I prefer an uber driver to a car that drives itself too. There was the Waymo incident that was covered up too. And unfortunately it doesn't look like we can end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine with AI either. But it can be used to create a surplus of food and shelter, and improve healthcare outcomes. Who knows, maybe some day it will even help with PTSD.

Isn't that what computers, aviation, and most technology brings at least at first?